Sonic Café, that’s Alice Merton reminding us to lighten up, turn down the outrage meter a bit and just get along. So yeah, I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 326. This time the Sonic Café tackles the world of higher education, with your college degree is probably worthless. Yeah, we’re talking to all of you ornithology, art, history, English, philosophy and even clarinet majors. Comedians Dave Dyer, Mary Mack, Chris Strait, Helene Angley, Jason Love are here to prove the point. All wrapped in a music mix pulled from 47 years including Third Eye Blind, Tinariwen, Cheap Trick, plus great jazz from Charles Lloyd & The Marvels, including a trip in to Sonic Café time machine back to 1976 for Boston from their first release we’ll spin Foreplay/Longtime. Oh and before we forget, listen for the debut of Sonic Café news you can’t use featuring the magnificent talents of the folks at the Onion News Network. So sharpen your pencils and pay attention as we demonstrate how your college degree is ahh probably worthless, from our little radio café way out here in the Pacific northwest, as always we’re the Sonic Café.
Song 1: She's Not Moving Out Artist: Dave Dyer LP: Dry Bar Comedy Yr: 2022 Song 2: Why So Serious (Radio Safe) Artist: Alice Merton LP: Mint Yr: 2019 Song 3: Tattoo Of The Sun [2017 Version] Artist: Third Eye Blind LP: Third Eye Blind [Disc 2] Yr: 2017 Song 4: Clarinet Degree Artist: Mary Mack LP: Dry Bar Comedy Yr. 2022 Song 5: Imidiwàn N-Àkall-In Artist: Tinariwen LP: Elwan Yr: 2017 Song 6: You Are In My Vision Artist: Gary Numan & Tubeway Army LP: Replicas Yr: 1979 Song 7: Chinese Guys Are Hot Artist: Chris Strait LP: Dry Bar Comedy Year: 2022 Song 8: The Sun Never Sets Artist: Cheap Trick LP: Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello Yr: 2016 Song 9: Company Immediately Calls Job Applicant Upon Seeing 'B.A. In Communications' Artist: The Onion LP: The Onion News Network Yr: 2013 Song 10: Not The Same Anymore Artist: The Strokes LP: The New Abnormal Yr: 2020 Song 11: Dismal Swamp Artist: Charles Lloyd & The Marvels LP: Tone Poem Yr: 2021 Song 12: Checking Account Artist: Helene Angley LP: Dry Bar Comedy Yr: 2022 Song 13: Unpleasent Breakfast Artist: The Hold Steady LP: Open Door Policy Yr: 2021 Song 14: Foreplay Long Time Artist: Boston LP: Boston Yr: 1976 Song 15: IKEA Artist: Jason Love LP: Dry Bar Comedy Yr: 2022 Song 16: She...Blessed Be The One Artist: Harry Connick, Jr. LP: She Yr: 1994 Song 17: A Sorted Ending Artist: Celer LP: Capri Yr: 2015
About the Producer:
Scott Clark has always had a lot of music in his life. Growing up outside of Chicago, he was mesmerized early on by the radio of the sixties and seventies and began collecting records at a very early age. From 45’s and LP’s to cassettes and CD’s and now digital… he really never stopped. Today everything in his library is digitized because he got sick of lugging all that stuff around.
The concept for the Sonic Café is to deliver the high production values and feel of the radio he grew up listening to. But unlike the tight, repetitious playlists of those commercial stations, feature a massive range of artists, genres and tunes. The whole idea is to package it in an eclectic, engaging, no repeat format that brings both new and old together in a unique, entertaining, and most importantly fun and fast paced way. There’s really nothing on the radio today, or in the past, that compares with it.
About the Sonic Café:
The show is set in an imaginary cafe overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast. The cafe serves up eclectic, intelligent music, comedy and pop culture. The program originates on the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, so the imagery is not a huge stretch.
Each program is 58:00 minutes in length leaving room for station ID, promos and PSAs. Each episode is .mp3 encoded at a constant rate of 256kbps and ready for broadcast.
An episode is released each week. All episodes are evergreen; never focusing on time of year, weather, month, holidays, events etc. so each show is timeless. All music is presented in a no repeat format. Once a song airs in an episode it never airs again. Episodes may be downloaded and grouped together to quickly create program blocks of two, three, four or more hours in length.
The Sonic Cafe has a Facebook page (facebook.com/SonicCafeRadio) where complete show notes and playlists are presented for each episode. Listeners can also reach the show producers via email (SonicCafeRadio@gmail.com)